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...cross and a steeple, which will eventually contain a bronze bell. Inside is an altar surmounted by a reversible cross (plain on one side, a crucifix on the other) and a picture of Christ. Flanking the picture are plaques bearing, respectively, a Star of David and a lotus leaf to symbolize Buddhism. The chapel's congregation contains at least one representative of Protestantism. Catholicism, Judaism and Buddhism, and each will take turns giving Sunday sermons on his faith. The group at first regretted that they had no Moslem, but then decided that it was just as well, since Moslems...
Flower Drum Song. A routine but opulent and attractive Oriental excursion by those skillful Occidentals, Rodgers and Hammerstein. With the freshest lotus leaves on Broadway, Singers Miyoshi Umeki and Pat Suzuki...
...million, 9.9 million will live in Los Angeles County alone, and 17,349,000 in the lotus-eater land of Southern California...
...singles into doubles by adding divans that one newspaper described as "apparently designed for dwarfs." Delhi's barmen, in need of practice after two years of prohibition, suddenly found themselves back in business -but only for one week, and to serve only those who wore the magic silver lotus lapel badge. Those who wore it were the 1,000-odd delegates and guests at the 13th annual meeting of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), gathered in the air-conditioned comfort of Delhi's modern House of Science...
Penholders & Prohibition. For all his other-worldly air, Morarji Desai has been described by fellow Indians as "a lotus with a steel stem." The son of a struggling schoolteacher, he was well started on a brilliant civil-service career under the British when he resigned his job to join Gandhi's independence movement in 1930. Of the 17 years between his resignation and India's independence, Desai spent more than six in British prisons. With independence, he emerged as Congress Party strongman in Bombay State, won a reputation as a hard-boiled politician who never forgot an injury...